Activision Starting to Take the Plastic Wrap off Its Mobile Strategy

Activision Blizzard is known for producing blockbuster hits like World of Warcraft. Now the videogame maker is gunning for much smaller screens, including smartphones and tablets.
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Halo 4 Players Will Get Free Weekly “TV” Episodes on the Xbox

The hugely successful Halo series on the Xbox has spawned tons of other content, like comics and novels. Up next, the developers are experimenting with TV.
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Behind the Curve: EA Finally Making Mobile Games Free This Year

Over the next year, Electronic Arts said, a majority of its mobile game titles will become free, representing a seismic shift away from the premium games market.
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That’s a Lot of Fruit Ninja: Tablet Gaming World Record Set at E3

They came, they played, they never slept and they walked away with their names etched in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Gree Who? See Which Company Had the Biggest-Smallest Booth at E3.

Perhaps you’ve never heard of Gree, but if you were at E3 this week, you wouldn’t have been able to miss it.
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Game Over! The Best of E3 in Photos.

This week, gaming fans from around the world descended upon Los Angeles for the annual E3 conference, while we here at AllThingsD were mere mortals in the battle to cover it.
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Samsung to Roll Out Cloud-Based Game Service on Smart TVs This Fall

Consumers with high-end, Internet-connected Samsung TVs will be able to access some games without a console.
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A Closer Look at “SmartGlass” With Xbox’s Marc Whitten (Video)

The Microsoft Xbox Live VP demonstrates to AllThingsD how its “SmartGlass” technology will allow Xbox users to operate their mobile phones as a remote control and keyboard for the TV.
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Hollywood Facial Animation Tech Comes to Sony PC-Based Games

Sony Online Entertainment is showing off tech that makes an animated character mimic a gamer’s facial expressions.
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Nintendo Holds Back the Goods on Wii U Launch Date

We know it’s coming “this holiday” — but consumers are still in the dark on an exact date.
The Wii U's touchscreen also has high-definition graphics.

No PS4 at E3. Really.